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TAB: The Snows They Melt the Soonest (arr OBD)

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Jeff Rice

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Apr 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/15/96
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**** The Snows They Melt the Soonest ****
**** Traditional ****
**** arr. Ian Benzie/Old Blind Dogs ****
**** tab by Jeffrey Rice (jr...@pomona.edu ****


Here's a very sweet version of The Snows... as sung by Ian Benzie on
Old Blind Dogs' latest album, Legacy. He plays it in standard tuning,
although I prefer it capoed up two.

r=rolled
h=hammer-on
p=pull-off

Section I: Introduction
Gently...
Amin Amin(sus 3)
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|-------1---1------------1---1------------1--------1-------1---1---1---
|-----2-------2--------0-------0--------0--------0-------0-------2-----
|---2----------------2----------------0--------0-------2---------------
|-0----------------0----------------3--------2-------0-----------------
|----------------------------------------------------------------------


Section II: Verse
r
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|-------1---1----------1------1---1-----
|-----2-------2--------0----0-------0---
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The snows, they melt the soonest..... as the

|--------------------------0------------
|-------1--------1-------1---1----------
|-----0--------0-------2-------2--------
|---0--------0-------2-----------2------
|-3--------2-------0---------------0----
|---------------------------------------
winds begin to change
C
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|-------1---1----------1---------1-----1----
|-----2-------2------0---------2---------2--
|---2-----------------------0---------------
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|-------------------------------------------
The corn, it ripens fastest when the

|-------2-------2--------0h2p0h2p0--0-------
|-----1-------1--------1--------------1-----
|---2-------0--------2----------------------
|-0----------------0------------------------
|---------2---------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------
frost is settling in...

|---------0-----0--------0--------0h2-----2-
|-------1---1----------1--------1-----1-----
|-----2-------2------0-------2----------2---
|---2----------------------0----------------
|-0----------------3------------------------
|-------------------------------------------
and when a woman tells me that... my

|-------2--------2----------0h2p0---0-------
|-----1--------1---------1--------1---------
|---2--------0---------2--------------------
|-0-----------------------------------------
|----------2----------2---------------------
|-------------------------------------------
face she'll soon forget...


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|-----2-------2-----2-----------2-----------2---------------2-------2-----
|---2---------------------------3---------2---------------2-----------2---
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|-----------------------------------------------3-------------------------
before we part, I'll wage a croon, she's bound to follow yet


Verses:
The snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing,
The corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are settlin' in.
And when a lover tells me that my face she'll soon forget,
Before we part, I'll wage a croon, she's bound to follow yet.

The snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing,
the swallow flies without a thought as long as it is spring,
but when spring goes and winter blows, my love she will be fain,
for all her pride to follow me across the raging main.

The snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing,
The bee that flew when summer shone in winter cannot sting,
I've seen a lover's anger melt between the night and morn,
So it's surely not a harder thing to melt a woman's scorn.

So don't you bid me farewell, no farewell I'll receive,
For you will lie with me, my love, then kiss and take your leave.
I'll wait here 'til the moorcock calls and the martin takes the wing,
for the snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing.


____________________________________________________________
Jeffrey Rice | "Easy does it!"
Chemistry, '97 | jr...@pomona.edu
Pomona College | http://www.webcom.com/jrice

Ian F.Benzie

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Apr 16, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/16/96
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Thanx for working out the Tab for the Snows, unfortunately I can`t read
tablature myself but it`s nice that someone has gone to all the bother of
working it out and putting it on the Net. Hope you enjoyed the album, the
OBDs are going into the studio at the end of `96 for the 5th CD album.
Once again thanx for the interest.

Ian F.Benzie ( of OLD BLIND DOGS )


Walbratt

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Apr 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/22/96
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Say! Thanks for the tab on "The Snows". I haven't heard Old Blind Dogs
perform it, but I will check that out. John Renbourn does a great version
on "Wheel of Fortune" with Robin Williamson. I've been wanting to learn
that song. I haven't tried tablature for years, though...this could
become a project.

Cynthia

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